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Since the original GB thread has been closed, I wanted to start a new thread for information about the replacement drivers. I received a PM from Dale today, stating that the replacement driver was shipped out today. Did anyone else receive a message from Dale?

I received an email (not PM) from Dale yesterday, June 6, stating the drivers were available and requesting confirmation of my shipping address.

This appears to be in response to a thermal test report that I emailed to him on March 13 regarding my XHP35 MT09R (at Terrys request). It looks like he kept that email as a tickler, and replied to it when the drivers became available.

I postponed contacting Dale regarding the new driver. No hurry on this side, and I’m sure it’s hectic busy at Haikelite. New MT09R with improved driver should soon hit the stores, and people should receive the new driver soon hopefully. I’ll check that out first.
On a side note, I just came back from a midnight hike in the woods with both my original MT09R 70.2, and good grief the output and beam is just a dream. It’s a stunning light alright, and I’m glad mine work well.

I ordered new M09R.
It has new driver Texas Avenger.
I recived new drivers to my MT09R ordered from group buy.
Tonight I ‘ m going to measured lumens from new MT09R and compare with my modded MT09R from group buy.

I ordered new M09R.
It has new driver Texas Avenger.
I recived new drivers to my MT09R ordered from group buy.
Tonight I ‘ m going to measured lumens from new MT09R and compare with my modded MT09R from group buy.

Man that’s awesome! If possible I would like to see pics of the old and new driver.

I don’t have old drivers.
I swapped oryginal from MT09R to MT03.
I can add pictures of new drivers in flashlight and alone.
How to add miniature on post??
EDIT
I found Picture of old drivers soo I add it too.

Interesting that they are already selling / shipping these drivers. I asked this weekend when they would be ready and they said they were not done yet. They were supposed to send the rest of the payment before they started selling these.

JasonWW wrote:

hIKARInoob wrote:

smokuxx1987 wrote:

I don“t have version on XHP35HI

Yeah but there’s nothing I can see on the driver that says the driver is for the 70 version.

Yeah, the old xhp70 driver had lots of 7135 chips, the new one doesn’t.

At the expense of possibly looking like a fool, is it possible the drivers are interchangeable with the emitters determining the amp draw/load?

One is 12v, one is 6 volt and the MCU is 3v so I assume you have to use a different voltage divider between the 2 drivers.

I think TA said he had to tweak NarsilM to get it ramping just right, but…

I’m gonna just be quite and maybe TA will come along and explain all our questions. (I showed TA this thread)

The drivers are the same design, the only changes are some of the components to work correctly with the voltage change.

Since the PCB is the same the only way to tell them apart is by looking at the components.

The easiest method is to look at either the bank of resistors or the R8 resistor to the right of the MCU.

Bank:
XHP70.2 = 47ohm
XHP35 = 150ohm

R8:
xhp70.2 = 22k ohm
XHP35 = 47k ohm

There are some other component changes as well but these will be the easiest to see.

Well it’s been almost a month since HL told me they shipped out my replacement driver. Usually I get packages from China in about a month’ss time at most, I’ll update everyone once I get it. TA, I would ping HL about the last payment since it seems like HL has been shipping out the drivers for a while now (assuming their messages are true).

Yeah but there’s nothing I can see on the driver that says the driver is for the 70 version.

At the expense of possibly looking like a fool, is it possible the drivers are interchangeable with the emitters determining the amp draw/load?

One is 12v, one is 6 volt and the MCU is 3v so I assume you have to use a different voltage divider between the 2 drivers.

The drivers are the same design, the only changes are some of the components to work correctly with the voltage change.

Hot damn, I’m not such a fool after all! Lol

What’s funny is I don’t think I’ve ever seen this MT09R driver until now. I don’t remember the row of resistors. TA, did you specifically not show any pictures of it in your driver replacement thread? Maybe I just forgot seeing a picture of it.